Children of Immigrants Share Their 'American Story' in New PSAs

Colorlines Screenshot from a "My American Life" PSA, taken from YouTube on May 26, 2016.

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A new public service announcement (PSA) campaign features children of immigrants addressing their fear that their parents will be deported. The television and radio PSAs began airing yesterday (May 25) in support of comprehensive immigration reform.

“Every day, when I wait for my mom to pick me up from school, I get scared that she won’t be able to come,” a child says in one PSA, while viewers see footage of a kid sitting alone on a school stairwell. “I wish my family could stay here together,” another child says.

Child advocacy group First Focus created the PSAs—which will air in nine states and Washington, D.C.—for its new “My American Story” campaign. The campaign “seeks to raise awareness about the harmful impact of U.S. immigration policies on children and promote policy change to ensure that all children in America are able to grow up healthy and fulfill their full potential,” according to a summary on its website.

"President Obama took office vowing to go after unscrupulous employers who hire illegal immigrants, but worksite audits have plunged over the last year and a half, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Immigration Studies, tumbling along with the rest of immigration enforcement."

The Left-Leaning LA Times posted an article that shows that the Obama administration, the Illegal Alien lobby, and the major media outlets have been in collusion to depict the "high" deportation numbers. The exact opposite is true since the beginning of the current President's policy. Interior deportation has and will be lower than 1973 rates. This is leading towards more people overstaying their visas and currently, more Illegal Alien minors crossing the border. Obama has just recently instructed border patrol to not turn back those Illegal Aliens on record as having entered illegally as priors, but to let them pass IF they don't have a major criminal record. After the first Illegal Entry, it is a felony each time thereafter.

Even Obama in 2011, called the deportation numbers deceptive when talking to Hispanic voters. President Obama said statistics that show his administration is on track to deport more illegal immigrants than the Bush administration are misleading.

“The statistics are a little deceptive,” he said Wednesday in an online discussion aimed at Hispanic voters."

"If you are a run-of-the-mill immigrant here illegally, your odds of getting deported are close to zero — it's just highly unlikely to happen," John Sandweg, until recently the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement

"The refocus in law enforcement efforts has effectively protected 9.6 million of the United States’ estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, the report found. In all, a full implementation of Obama’s changes would reduce annual deportations to approximately 25,000..."

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"The federal government’s chief deportation agency has seen its success plummet under President Obama, and its chief, Sarah R. Saldana, will tell Congress on Tuesday that they’ve had trouble adapting to the changing face of illegal immigration and a lack of cooperation from both American cities and from foreign countries.

Ms. Saldana, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), says in testimony prepared for the House Judiciary Committee that the dramatic drop in deportations is a reflection of a trickier set of circumstances and pressures from all sides.

She said she had to pull agents off their regular duties during last summer’s illegal immigrant surge at the border, which meant fewer people focusing on deporting the longtime illegal immigrants living in the interior of the U.S. And she said the lack of cooperation from states, counties and cities when agents ask them to hold an illegal immigrant for pickup has also hindered efforts."

Testifying last week before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing focused on the Obama administration's lax interior enforcement policies, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Sarah Saldaña admitted a dramatic decline in criminal alien deportations. ....Sessions was not satisfied, noting that her agency's budget for deportation was increased from $2.6 billion in 2011 to $3.4 billion this year, and that the government even returned part of that allotment. (Id.) Summing up the hearing, Sessions said the decline in removals "demonstrated the failure of our system, when the one area that we were promised was going to be aggressively pursued was criminal aliens, and that is plummeting also. So there's nothing really working effectively."

Only 70 out of 121 Central American "surgees" were deported because they've exhausted their legal proceedings and were found not eligible for asylum. This number is minuscule compared to the Millions of Illegal Aliens to be deported.

Update: 3/12/16 DHS has arrested 336 of the "surgees" that have exhausted their legal options. Let's see how many of them will be deported.

It has been proven that these continuing "surges" are not fleeing any uptick of crime, violence, gang activity. They were promised "permisos" from their clergy and media. Due to Obama's lax immigration policy, they believe this to be true. Not mentioned that 70-90% of those released on "bond" or "security" bracelets do not show up for their legal proceedings. They just "disappear" waiting "in the shadows" for the next mass amnesty.